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Teaming Up Two Biotech Winners to Fight Cancer: CRISPR and CAR T

Advances in CAR T, a remarkable immunotherapy treatment dubbed a “living drug.” This new therapy genetically modifies a patient’s cells to fight cancer, but current research efforts hope to treat autoimmune diseases, organ damage and more.

Treating Rare Diseases: The Challenge of Access

Although rare by definition, the collective impact of rare diseases is anything but insignificant. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region – home to over half of...

Making Advanced Cancer a Chronic Disease

“CANCER SPREAD” HAS SUCH dreadful implications. Having helped individuals with cancer for over three decades, discussions around metastases still shake me. Fortunately, age-adjusted death rates are...

Hockey Fan Spots Melanoma

NOT JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT a hockey game. The Canucks faced off against my Seattle Kraken. Sitting behind the arena glass, a young woman spies...